(01-21-2018, 08:32 AM)Peter Wrote: Hey Coinhero really cool sketchbook you've got here. keep it up! :)

If I can chime in on the PC front, if your PC is still holding up ok atm you might be better off waiting a few months, only because ram is super expensive atm (I'm also in the market of upgrading my PC), think it's like double or even triple what it was last year which is just crazy!

(01-26-2018, 08:08 AM)darktiste Wrote: Nice sense of humour.I think i would point out two trait of personality i think could describe you and what i advice get around to feel better will doing art.

Impatient defined as to expect result in a unrealistic set of time which lead to low quality work. Other negative effect: Bad planning. Can also be cause by the Pressure to impress .
Solution: turn deadline into a battle plan remember the stage of production and stick to it.

Perfectionism Defined as striving for flawlessness and setting excessively high performance standards, accompanied by overly critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations. It is best conceptualized as a multidimensional characteristic, as psychologists agree that there are many positive and negative aspects.In its maladaptive form, perfectionism drives people to attempt to achieve an unattainable ideal, and their adaptive perfectionism can sometimes motivate them to reach their goals. In the end, they derive pleasure from doing so. Perfectionist often fall in the people pleasing trap i also believe that perfectionism can be resulting from emotional injury from past failure.
Caution failure to achieve perfection for those who fall into neurotic Perfectinism could lead to depression,anxiety,procrastination.

Solution:
Remember that self critism as to be constructive.Those who think they have unhealth perfectionism should strive to understand the root of there excessive behavior.Remember it ok to seek to be better each day.But remember that the mind and body have there own limit.It doesn't mean you can't break them it just mean that you have to learn when to stop or say no.

I also encourage you too read my post on positive think i believe it give a belt of weapon to avoid the trap of self destruction.

http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-6483.html

I am sorry if it seem like i am overeacting i just want to give you a chance if that a problem for you.

(01-29-2018, 10:59 AM)Fedodika Wrote: I use painter and have since i started and basically the more layers you use the more it bugs. Even one additional layer is not optimal for its performance. If you wanna use it you have to just intelligently block things out before hand and lay things in.. The brushes are beautiful and intricate, but there's just a lot of clutter and fluff and 50 different erasers that do very slightly different things ;p

(02-01-2018, 06:19 AM)ThereIsNoJustice Wrote: I want to talk about this image:


I think you have the same feeling that there is something not quite working about this image. In your words, "the dragon looks stupid and out of place like it was taken from a different image and pasted on this one."

Try thinking of your whole painting. Think of the distances between the values and colors, and think more of those distances than of the colors or values themselves. Every large move away from the last value and last color will stand out and draw the eye, and everything similar will not.

Most of the reason, I believe, the dragon image doesn't feel right is because you have a high saturation background which is competing with the dragon's red eye. To me, the image is saying that the background and the eye are of equal importance because they are so close to one another in chroma/saturation and value, and that's not the effect you had in mind. You wanted the eye to be important. If you take the color out of the clouds, the dragon's red eye will regain its punch. It will get even more punch if the value around the center of the eye may reach next to white, and the clouds were darker.

Hope this helps!